International Conference on Havana Charter for an International Trade Trade and

He has co authored numerous articles, book chapters and staff papers on international trade and development issues.

The performance comprises three chapters including The Dream of the Silk Road, The Interconnected Bridge, and The Flower of Friendship, highlighting the theme of Cultural Trade, Cultural Exchanges, Economic and Trade Cooperation, Prosperity and Development .

2. International trade instruments

Throughout the article reference is made, inter alia, to UNCITRAL legal texts, in particular, to the United Nations Sales Convention (1980).

Documents relating to trade and development

The reports by the secretariat have four chapters first, the economic environment of the Member, second, the trade and investment policy framework, third, trade policies and practices by measure, and fourth, sectoral trade policies and practices.

Recent trends in trade, transport and logistics have led to new requirements in the area of trade facilitation, which have also been analysed in an article in the Transport Newsletter (UNCTAD WEB SDTE TLB 2005 2).

Trade facilitation can reduce the overall cost of international trade transactions through the internationally agreed alignment of key trade and transport procedures and documents.

The Trade Point strategy and the most recent evaluation of Trade Points activities are covered in greater detail in a separate document, the Trade Point Review.

Information on the implementation of this work programme can be found inter alia on the Trade, Environment and Development Branch section of the UNCTAD website, as well as in the UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2005, which contains a chapter with information on technical cooperation (TC) and capacity building (CB) activities, including BioTrade partnerships and the CBTF.

There are also competition chapters in the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement and the Canada Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement.

Case law on UNCITRAL texts

Tool kits designed to facilitate self execution of MTS capacity building have been completed on institutional capacity building for trade negotiations and trade policy formulation MTS reference centres and inquiry points and export sector strategies.

Delegates may wish to check the availability of the documents by accessing the Working Group's page in the Working Groups section of the UNCITRAL website.

(a) A higher number of transactions or a higher volume of international trade carried out under the regime of UNCITRAL legislative and non legislative texts.

World Trade Organization, document WT L 579.

Published in German in Internationales Handelsrecht, 2002, 2, 73.

Published in German in Internationales Handelsrecht, 2002, 2, 76.

UNCITRAL documents are posted on the UNCITRAL website (http www.uncitral.org ) upon their issuance in all the official languages of the United Nations.

26. He felt that the separation of quot strengthening trade supporting services quot and quot trade efficiency measures quot in section I.B of the report was in contradiction with efforts to improve trade supporting services where integration of trade efficiency and Trade Point efforts was of marked importance.

The International Trade Centre (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) issued in 1993 a guide on improving public procurement systems that included a chapter on measures to combat corruption.

20. The International Trade Law site (http www.un.org.at uncitral index.html) contains information on the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) preparatory documentation of the Commission and its working groups case law on UNCITRAL texts (CLOUT) conventions (including their status), model laws and other texts relating to international trade law.

8. Case law on UNCITRAL texts (CLOUT).

With respect to future work in the field of settlement of commercial disputes, the Working Group might wish to have preliminary consultations regarding the desirability and feasibility of undertaking work on various issues, outlined in previous documents (A CN.9 468, paras.

61. At its eighth executive session, in June 1995, the Trade and Development Board was requested that statutes be drafted by UNCTAD regarding the establishment of an International Federation of Trade Points.

It also called for the progressive liberalization of regulations that impede trade and investment in services.45

See World Trade Organization, document WT L 540.

See World Trade Organization, document WT L 579.

27 The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Trade and Development Report 1998 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.98.II.D.6), pp. 89 93, contained an extensive discussion of the applicability of the principles derived from chapters 9 and 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code to international insolvency procedures for sovereign debt.

For UNCITRAL instruments to gain universal acceptability, participation in UNCITRAL meetings should be inclusive.

4. The second section of the document covers the other four sub items on the Commission s agenda, namely (1) trade efficiency strategy (2) legal dimensions of the Trade Point programme (3) inter institutional cooperation in the field of trade efficiency and (4) trade efficiency assessment.

Status and promotion of UNCITRAL texts

8. Reference was made to the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment and in particular to working paper W 8 (WT CTE W 8 of 8 June 1995) which reviewed the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) and its relation to the environment.

Economic, trade and cultural exchanges were closer than ever.

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UNCITRAL documents are posted on the UNCITRAL website (http www.uncitral.org) upon their issuance in all the official languages of the United Nations.

10. Status and promotion of UNCITRAL legal texts.

See World Trade Organization, document WT MIN(01) DEC 2.

Source UNCTAD, World Investment Report, 1996 Investment, Trade and International Policy Arrangements (Geneva United Nations), United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.II.A.14, chapter V. The instruments listed here are reproduced in whole or in part in the source publication.

To achieve this, the Branch Division should formulate a strategy to work jointly with funding agencies supporting trade related programmes

11. Status and promotion of UNCITRAL legal texts.

VI. Case law on UNCITRAL texts

A mission to the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) was also organized to discuss investment chapters of free trade agreements.

Also of high relevance to the present report is the UNCTAD book entitled Trade and Competition Issues Experiences at Regional Level, particularly the article it contains on special and differential treatment in this area.